I was born on Tuesday, July 2, 1963. Today is my 55th birthday, and like the old nursery rhyme goes, my entire life has been 'full of grace'. In honor of my birthday, let's have a little poetic fun.

The nursery rhyme "Monday's Child" was written in couplet form. A couplet is two lines of rhyming poetry, followed by two more lines with a different rhyme, and so on. Robert Frost, one of America's great poets, wrote many poems using couplets.

A haiku is a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

While a haiku follows a 5/7/5 syllable pattern, a lune's syllable pattern is 5/3/5. Typically, since the middle line is restricted to three syllables, it is the shortest line of the three.They are not as easy to write as you might think.

Below are my humble attempts to write a couplet, some haiku and a lune for you. But first, let's take a look at that nursery rhyme in its entirety.

MONDAY'S CHILD (First Published in England in 1838, Author Unknown)

Monday's child is fair of face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,Wednesday's child is full of woe,Thursday's child has far to go,Friday's child works hard for a living,Saturday's child is loving and giving,But the child who is born on the Sabbath dayIs fair and wise and good in every way.

[I wrote the poems from this point forward. They can be found in my upcoming book,More Ink For The Pen, set to be released in the Spring of 2019.)